The Oxford Health Alliance summit in Sydney has been told that urban environments and workplaces must be designed to encourage physical activity in order to…
The leading cause of vision loss in the elderly occurs when the central region of the retina, the macula deteriorates. This is known as age-related macular…
More than half of the world's population are born and die without any record of their existence, and these individuals invariably live in the world's poorest…
The team – including University of Georgia professor John Gittleman and scientists from the Consortium for Conservation Medicine, the Institute of Zoology…
Scientists have won a major battle in the fight against age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, a blinding eye disease that affects millions of people. An…
Fibromyalgia is a common, painful syndrome, with no known cause and no accepted cure. Symptoms usually involve chronic and severe pain and tenderness in…
Ketamine, a drug used in general medicine as an anesthetic, has recently been shown to produce improvements in depressed patients within hours of…
Previous studies had suggested that vitamin E might improve the immune system. In animal studies vitamin E seemed to protect against various infections.Harri…
A new study published in the February 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry set out to compare two popular classes of antidepressants, the newer serotonin and…
A research team at Umeå Center for Molecular Medicine has identified the signals that coordinate the early development of the central and peripheral nervous…
Back pain is one of the main causes of absence from work in the UK. In 2004-5 approximately 34,000 people in the East Midlands suffered from musculoskeletal…
Brain injuries are a serious problem in the industrialised countries, not only for their high incidence but also because they mainly affect young people. At a…
Building upon a care model they developed and extensively tested over the past 7 years, the focus of second generation memory care is on two groups — patients…
The finding echoes earlier results on PSA concentrations found in obese and overweight men with prostate cancer and highlights the need to reconsider PSA…
The researchers performed brain MRI scans in 25 patients with schizophrenia and their non-affected siblings and compared the scans with those of 40 healthy…
HER2 is one of a family of genes that help regulate the growth and proliferation of human cells. Normal cells have two copies of HER2, but about 20 to 25…
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